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Crap From The Past - November 9, 2018: Congratulations, women! And thanks to WQNA/Springfield!
A pop music radio show for people who already know plenty about pop music, hosted by Ron "Boogiemonster" Gerber and heard every Friday night from 10 to midnight on KFAI-FM, 90.3 FM Minneapolis, 106.7 FM St. Paul, and KFAI.org.
SISTERS ARE DOING IT FOR THEMSELVES - Eurythmics and Aretha Franklin (1985)
SHOW SOME RESPECT - Tina Turner (1985)
THINK (ABOUT IT) - Lyn Collins (1972)
EDGE OF A BROKEN HEART - Vixen (1988)
YOU'RE GONNA GET HURT - Jenny Morris (1987)
10-9-8 - Face To Face (1984)
THE WAIT [1980 LP version] - Pretenders (1980)
THE WAIT [1979 45 B-side version] - Pretenders (1979)
OBJECT OF MY DESIRE - Starpoint (1985)
COMPARED TO WHAT - Roberta Flack (1969)
OASIS - Roberta Flack (1988)
IT'S GOING TO TAKE SOME TIME - Carpenters (1972)
WHEN WE KISS - Bardeaux (1988)
KNOCKED OUT - Trijntje Oosterhuis (2012)
HAPPINESS - Trijntje Oosterhuis (2012)
LOVE'S GOT A LINE ON YOU - Scandal (1983)
I LOVE YOUR SMILE - Shanice (1992)
DANCING IN THE CITY - Marshall Hain (1979)
RIP IN HEAVEN - Til Tuesday (1989)
RED VINES - Aimee Mann (1999)
MOMENTUM - Aimee Mann (1999)
CALLING IT QUITS - Aimee Mann (1999)
400 MILES - Wide Right (2003)
NOTHING BUT A HEARTACHE - Flirtations (1969)
TAKE THE A TRAIN - Jonathan And Darlene Edwards (1982)
THE OBJECT OF MY AFFECTIONS - Jonathan And Darlene Edwards (1962)
DOWNTOWN - One 2 Many (1989)
MARLENE ON THE WALL - Suzanne Vega (1985)
CLEAN UP WOMAN - Betty Wright (1971)
LOST IN MUSIC - Sister Sledge (1979)
KFAI's long-running "Jet Set Planet" signed off earlier in the evening and ran an extended episode through the "Crap From The Past" time slot. So, Ron recorded this episode at home in his basement. For the vocals, he used a Shure SM58 microphone (with no wind screen, unfortunately), fed into a Behringer Xenyx Q502USB mixer, with all the gain and EQ knobs set to 0 dB, and the one-knob compressor knob maxed out 10. He recorded the vocals and pieced the show together in Audacity, using a ReplayGain plugin to set the nominal levels of all the vocals, music, and ID pieces, using an Auto Duck plugin to drop the music volume by 6 dB when the vocals or IDs were playing, and using the Envelope tool to hasten the fades. Ron knows that the first few talk breaks are out of synch with the music, so that they don't properly hit the post - it's a production error that Ron was too lazy to fix. It took about four hours to record the two-hour show, which seems counterproductive, although the show sounds spectacular.
